I hate this spell. I used to be a Tiefling. I used to be PURPLE. 

Now I'm a HUMAN. All because we had a reincarnate scroll and no clerics.

So I know that the reincarnate spell allows the player to retain their capabilities from their old life, but what about blood hunters? They go through a process by which their blood is forever changed, but with reincarnation your blood and physical tissue is changed. How would this affect a player character?

I would like to know to especially since the Theros book came out.

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"It retains the capabilities it had in its original form, except it exchanges its original race for the new one and changes its racial traits accordingly."

Going from human to, say halfelf: do I lose the extra language, as that is a racial trait?

It seems odd if I do. I mean, it's strange to suddenly lose the ability to speak a certain language...

 technically half-elves have extra language too

“You touch a dead humanoid or a piece of a dead humanoid. Provided that the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, the spell forms a new adult body for it and then calls the soul to enter that body.”

Does this mean a dead baby would get a grown up body but keep the mental capabilities of a 3 month old? Eek. 

Regarding Bloodhunter's: As it's written, I'd suggest they retain all the proficiencies and bonuses as a specialized fighter type but lose the ritual themed abilities until they can complete the initiation ritual again (kind of like a defunct paladin seeking atonement). Then the reincarnated character can do a side quest to get their ritual powers back.

If that's not feasible, or desirable, the DM could just say the new body doesn't appear locally, and the character catches up to the party with the ritual already completed at some point in the new incarnation's lifetime. It's really whatever works best for the campaign.

Quote from Dekwa >>

"It retains the capabilities it had in its original form, except it exchanges its original race for the new one and changes its racial traits accordingly."

Going from human to, say halfelf: do I lose the extra language, as that is a racial trait?

It seems odd if I do. I mean, it's strange to suddenly lose the ability to speak a certain language...

 I think it's ruled is you lose the racial abilities an change them out so if you are an elf going half-orc you lose the advantage against charming spell, transing, and not having to sleep but would gain the benefits of being half-orc like savage attacker relentless endurance and menacing other than that the rest of you stat stay the same

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5e's Reincarnate is far more generous than previous versions.  Time was, 50/50 shot you came back as an animal. 

Fastest build-breaker of the wild west

Strange use of this spell, but you could theoretically just kill someone and then reincarnate them over and over until they get a body they like, if they weren't comfortable in their original one. It would be costly and require a lot of trust though. I think some people would consider it worth the expense and pain, but the trust might be harder. Also some DMs give any resurrection spell an ability check which gets harder with each cast, so it wouldn't work in those campaigns.

This seems like a tough spell to futuee-proof.

Well speaking writing are two different things, and theirs the years of use

I had a male gnome rogue reincarnated as a female human... it was a disaster.  This was back in 1e or 2e, though, and the GM made me re-roll my physical stats.  So not only did I lose all the racial "thieving skill bonuses" of being a gnome, I also had to reroll my DEX.  I ended up having to drop Rogue, dual-classing into Fighter.  Ugh.

It looks like the 5e version doesn't require rerolling stats for the new adult body?  That's way more "user-friendly" than it used to be!

If I were DM'ing this, I'd change that 20% Human chance to match the race of the caster, and give the Human race the lower %.

Anyone else feel this spell would be hell too future proof?

Does a creature regain their hitpoint and spell slots if casting this spell? Been thinking about it cause in the Magical Wildsurge table for wildmagic sorcerer you can get this effect upon yourself if you die within a minute.

Because a liches phylactery will keep reforming them after they've been destroyed and lichdom also grants other powers beside eternal life. But I do agree, it's definitely the inferior choice...

So it makes me sad that RAW if your character is a Satyr, Centaur, Hexblood, or Fairy (UA) this just can't target you... Quick someone find a Cleric 

One of the more amusing ways to resurrect a character…very in-keeping with a Druid philosophy, as well.

Nature is quite chaotic; it DOES however have the recurring theme that while old things rot away or degrade, it lays the foundation for new life.

better than resurrection 10/10